Quintanilla, 30, has appeared in 29 games for the Mets this year, playing both middle infield positions. He has a .257/.250/.371 batting line in 80 plate appearances so far this year. The seven-year MLB veteran has a career batting line of .218 /.278 /.294.

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Before I read this news, I was thinking the Mets might have been hanging onto Quintanilla with the idea of trading him. Instead, they DFA him and he’ll almost certainly be claimed by a team needing a backup shortstop. I guess it’s Mets policy not to get something back for a player. They got back nothing for that other Mets shortstop down in Miami when they could’ve traded him earlier.

Yeah, I do think they’d have gotten something for him. The guy who posted his stats above got them wrong. He had a .350 OBP, not a .250 OBP. He had a 0.7 WAR, same as J. J. Hardy and Marco Scutaro, in just 80 AB. Fangraphs rated his WAR dollar value at $3M. If they couldn’t get something for a guy like that, who performed well in the bigs at a premium position like shortstop, they’re brain-dead.

You’re looking at a 29 game sample size whereas his career MLB OBP is .278. The guy has played 256 games at the major league in 10 years. If he was that great, he would have been a fixture on a major league roster a long time ago.